Note:Call Darkness's 10% chance to make you miss, while unlikely, can still happen. If this fate befalls your attacks, you might find the fight easier if you forfeit/restart. In a few hours of testing, this only happened to me twice, but just in case...

Ancient Catacomb Spider should die at this point. If the 2nd Wind-Up misses, abandon the fight and start again. The order of this rotation is important, otherwise your Wind-Up will miss due to spider being burrowed.

Against Catacomb Bat

You can try to get a few hits in with the Iron Starlette. Sometimes you're lucky and Iron Starlette can even kill it. Once Starlette dies, switch to Nexus Whelpling, cast Arcane Storm, then Mana Surge. Fill in with Tailsweep.

Against Catacomb Snake

Switch to Clockwork Gnome. Cast Build Turret on CD, fill in with Metal Fist. If your Gnome drops to about 50% HP use Repair. Don't worry if the heal kicks in after the Gnome's passive ress, this way your Gnome should be back up to about 900 HP and can easily finish off the snake.

Comment by DancingHare

My team was:

Lil' XT (1,1,2)Disgusting Oozeling (1,1,1)Clockwork Gnome (1,1,1)

Lil XT does strong damage to the spider as well as the backline pets, and can hit him while underground. Oozeling took care of the bat, and Clockwork Gnome was for cleanup on the snake, but he was already at half health due to XT.

Comment by Narinae

It's straightforward to reach from the Crimson Thicket flight point. Or, to get there on foot from the west or north, look at Tel'Anor on the map. The path takes a sharp bend under the R in Tel'Anor, /way 50.6, 39.0. Go to that point, then climb over the rocks to a path on the other side, which takes you down right by the cave.

Comment by maryalice

How to get there:

The "Ancient Catacomb Egg", which starts the pet battle, is in a small cave West of the Crimson Thicket flight master. The cave entrance is at the end of a downward staircase (cave opening 59.4, 43.1). To get to the staircase, travel southwest down the main road from the flight master and turn left just before the third lamppost. The stairs entrance cannot be seen from the road (staircase starts at 59.1, 44.8).

Comment by SilverDragon234

Comment by minititanliz

This fight is an all out brawl and this technique is not a guarantee of success. Unfortunately, this WQ was offered during the Direbeak Team rumble. After experimentation this is the group that works the best.

**please note: jab from sporeling is actually down against beast but the leech seed is a benefit. **

Hope you find this works for you as well as it did for me, thanks again to OP for the basic idea.

Comment by mraymus

I wish it were more clear in the description that this is a pet quest. I don't do pet battles. And I feel it's a huge waste of my time to fly all the way to this quest only to find it is a pet battle quest. Come on Blizzard. AT least put it in the description that it's a pet battle quest. Jeez, waste of my time. And this isn't the first time it has happened. It's happened over and over again.

Comment by mraymus

I wish it were more clear in the description that this is a pet quest. I don't do pet battles. And I feel it's a huge waste of my time to fly all the way to this quest only to find it is a pet battle quest. Come on Blizzard. AT least put it in the description that it's a pet battle quest. What a waste of my time. And this isn't the first time it has happened. It's happened over and over again.